GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, peer-reviewed, peer-edited journals published by the Genetics Society of America (GSA), are proud to support the posting of preprints. Here, we outline our experience in a draft statement.

Lachlan Coin, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Darya Vanichkina, Centenary Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Alicia Oshlack, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’... This practice of hiding reviews is damaging to scientific progress and to the general trust in the academic publishing system overall, since readers cannot see which aspects of the study were questioned and whether some aspects – which the reader m...

David L. Stern Janelia Research Campus HHMI I have been following the discussion about preprints closely over the past few months and I am won over by the arguments that science papers should be made available freely to everyone as soon as authors feel that t...

Gary McDowell, Future of Research and Tufts University, and Pandelis Perakakis, Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre, University of Granada, Spain Please address any correspondence to [email protected] and [email protected] In reforming the cultur... Open Scholar (http://www.openscholar.org.uk/, @os_soc) is an open, collectively governed organisation of volunteer researchers that was founded to develop concrete alternatives to the problem of journal-dependent scientific evaluation and communicati...

John R. Inglis and Richard Sever, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Please address any correspondence to [email protected] and [email protected] bioRxiv (biorxiv.org) is a not-for-profit, online archiving and distribution service for preprints[1] of re...

James Fraser, UCSF Can we move towards more open and rapid sharing of scientific results without putting younger scientists careers at risk?  Ideally we want evaluation (of candidates for faculty positions, of promotion of Assistant Professors, of graduate students for fellowships, or of grants for funding) to be thorough and based entirely on a careful study of the science.